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Photography Showcase: New York City in Black & White (Part II)

by Dan Perez August 20, 2015

Yesterday I shared a collection of choice photographs from my recent family trip to New York City. During our ten days there, we stooped at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Washington Square Park, Wave Hill, Central Park and our very first visit to Citi Field (we’re both long-suffering Mets fans).

I promised more pictures and I’m delivering on that promise.

Enjoy…

Revlon’s #LOVEISON digital billboard, Times Square

Young woman drawing, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Sand painter Joe Mangrum, Washington Square Park

Married folk music duo Coyote & Crow, Washington Square Park

Boat riders, Central Park

Up, Wave Hill, The Bronx

Cityscape, The Bronx

Jacob deGrom, Citi Field

Saxophone seranade, Washington Square Park

Bubbles, Washington Square Park

Young woman, Central Park

Young dancers outside the Bronx Museum of the Arts (Boogie on the Boulevard)

Me and the family on our final day in NYC, Grand Concourse, The Bronx

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August 20, 2015

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Photography Showcase: New York City in Black & White

by Dan Perez August 19, 2015

written by Dan Perez

Street dancer, Washington Square Park

So after what has become quite the busy year for our humble little video production business (I’m not complaining), I was finally able to sneak the family up to New York City for for a long overdue “vacation”. My wife and I were both raised in NYC (da Bronx) so when we make the trip up from South Florida (where we currently reside), it’s also about visiting family. We were, however, able to find enough time to enjoy a small portion of what this great city has to offer with visits to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Washington Square Park, Wave Hill, Central Park and our very first visit to Citi Field (we’re both long-suffering Mets fans).

Now I might be a multiple award winning filmmaker (humblebrag?) but I’m really just a wannabe photographer. Whenever I travel, I make sure to bring along my trusty Panasonic Lumix GH2 (yeah I know about the GH4 – don’t need one just yet) and my Olympus M Zuiko 12-40mm f/2.8 lens (and an 8mm fisheye for when the time calls for one). For someone who shoots video most of the time, taking photographs has become a very enjoyable little hobby of mine and unlike shooting video – it doesn’t feel like “work”, you know?

So here are a few choice images from my trip to The Big Apple in glorious black and white – I’ll post another set of images tomorrow. Oh, and it so happens to be World Photography Day today so why not grab a camera and go shoot something?

Enjoy…

Cooling off, The Bronx

Folk outfit Outlaw Ritual performing in Washington Square Park

Marble statue of wounded warrior, ca. A.D. 138 – 181, Metropolitan Museum of Art

Caught this family appreciating some stained glass art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art

Selfie, Central Park

Boat ride, Central Park

Cityscape, The Bronx

The Mets win, Citi Field

Postgame, Citi Field

Traffic cop, Times Square

My wife and I at Wave Hill in the Bronx

Here’s PART II of “New York City in Black and White” – Enjoy!

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August 19, 2015

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New York’s Central Park (In Pictures)

by Dan Perez November 5, 2014

written by Dan Perez

This past weekend, I had the opportunity to spend four days in New York City shooting a video for one of my fave clients. The shoot took me to Rye Brook, NY, Greenwich, CT, and Brooklyn (DUMBO) over three days which left me with a free day to spend as I pleased. Now, having relocated to South Florida 12 years ago, I had been in NYC only one time in the fall (back in 2009) and had forgotten how beautiful the city looked this time of year. Being that I had my teenage daughter with me (and considering how much she marveled at the color of the trees as we were landing at Westchester Airport), I decided to spend a lovely 58 degree (thanks, God) afternoon in Central Park with her, my mom and brother.

In 1858, landscapers and architects, Frederick Law Olmsted (1822–1903) and Calvert Vaux (1824–1895), won a design competition to improve and expand more than 750 acres of land central to Manhattan Island set aside by a law enacted by the New York State Legislature in the summer of 1853. The land? Central Park, which opened in 1857 and is the most visited urban park in the United States. As I am wont to do while traveling, I brought along my Panasonic GH2, a few lenses and snapped up a few pics. Enjoy…

We started our stroll in the Strawberry Fields section of the park (West Side around 73rd Street), a living memorial to songwriter and peace activist, John Lennon…

We soon made our way to Bethesda Terrace which features Bethseda Fountain with the famous Angel of the Waters statue atop. The statue references the Gospel of John, which describes an angel blessing the Pool of Bethesda and giving it healing powers…

You won’t have to walk too long to hear someone playing music or singing – one of the great things about the park…

Central Park is also a great place to get away from the hustle and bustle of the city and just relax…

Great place for birds and even Big Bird to chill out for a bit…

Sheep Meadow, the Park’s largest lawn, was originally the home to a flock of pure bred sheep(!) from 1864 until 1934.

A final stroll with my daughter down Literary Walk, Central Park’s most important horticultural feature and one of the largest and last remaining stands of American Elm trees in North America…

My traveling mates, very good company…

November 5, 2014

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Counting Crows live at SummerStage, NYC (In Pictures)

by Dan Perez July 15, 2014

written by Dan Perez

Any Counting Crows fans in the house? I can’t say I was a big fan of the band but while visiting family in New York last week, I received a call from my oldest friend Elvin who asked if I would like to check them out live at Central Park’s SummerStage concert series. His wife, you see, wasn’t able to make the show due to a foot injury. Now, I dig a few of their songs, particularly “A Long December” but I don’t own any of their albums and I could easily think of about a hundred bands (maybe 200?) I would prefer to go see live but time spent with a good friend is always time well spent, right? Right.

My friend is a big fan of Counting Crows, who formed in Berkeley, California back in 1991 and burst onto the music scene with the hit song “Mr. Jones” off their 1994 debut album “August and Everything After”. He’s seen them live seven times already and assured me they were a terrific live band. Turns out he was right.

The band, whose seventh studio album “Somewhere Under Wonderland” is due out late summer, put on a great show. Vocalist Adam Duritz was in full American Idol mode and the band rocked out for close to two hours. Oh, and the weather in New York that evening was glorious. Funny thing was, my teenage daughter had been humming “Mr. Jones” around the house lately(!) having discovered the band on Spotify. I told her I’d call her from the show when the band played the song so that she could listen in. Surprisingly, they never played it. Still a great show despite my somewhat disappointed daughter.

I mean, even if they had sucked, I got to hang out with my best bud; the same guy that sat next to me in kindergarten; a guy I get to see now only a few times a year. That the band was so worth seeing live was gravy. And, after all, what is one’s life if it isn’t made up of moments like these, right? Right.

Being the wannabe photographer that I am, I shot a few pics – hope you enjoy them. You can also check them out in hi-res over on my Flickr page…

Here are a few bonus pics of opening act Toad The Wet Sprocket (they were also terrific)…

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July 15, 2014

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Summer in New York City [in pictures]

by Dan Perez August 19, 2012

written by Dan Perez

Despite being a multiple award-winning filmmaker, one of the top video producers in South Florida, and pretty darn good looking, I’m really just a wannabe photographer at heart. So with summer vacation officially coming to an end tomorrow here in South Florida, I wanted to share a few photographs I took during my 17 days spent this past summer in the city where I was born and raised. A city I lived 33 years of my life in. And a city I’ll always love.

Enjoy…